Today Friday November 17th 2017 the Columbia Institute for Tele-Informationpresents its annual State of Telecom conference. This year’s event, held online, has the theme The Internet’s Next Bottlenecks? Major Platforms, Video Clouds, and the Middle Mile. In the past, improvements in business entry and regulatory policy have lowered a number of market barriers in the telecom and TV industries, enabling competition and access. As this shift has occurred, what bottlenecks are left or have emerged in the new digital environment? This online half day conference will explore the potential or actual disruption by the new content and distribution platforms and their impact on media and technology markets. It will also analyze the various public policy options that have been advocated. The focus will be on real issues that exist and what responses might be. Speakers include representatives of AT&T, Verizon, Facebook, and the FCC. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel.

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Great to see this Institute going so well all these years. I will try to join in though I am in the middle of an all-nighter of a 36 hours day. I have known about CITI since shortly after I came to Columbia Business School in January 1989 for my MBA, and founded and launched .PK and Internet email for Pakistan while still a student at Columbia. Regards to the leaders there whom I recall meeting during my time at Uris Hall.

Today, Wednesday October 9 2013, the ISOC-NY TV show will present an edited version of the webcast of CITI State of Telecom 2013 at Columbia Business School on September 26 2013, which including remarks from Eli Noam, Robert Pepper, and Susan Crawford. The show, which airs from 2-3pm, may be viewed via Manhattan Cable or online via the MNN website.

Today, Thursday September 26 2013, the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) will host State of Telecom 2013 at Columbus Business School NYC. This year this annual conference has the theme is ‘Can Broadband Networks Handle Cloud-Based Video Media? Technology, Business Models, Market Structure, And Policy‘, and launches a multi-year, multi-discipline project on “Cloud TV” which follows CITI’s work on ultrabroadband (UBB), broadband infrastructure deployment and investment, and “over-the-top (OTT) video.

ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré will deliver a lunchtime keynote. Panelists include Susan Crawford, Stephen Conroy, and Henning Schulzrinne. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.